Aprilly

English

Etymology

April +‎ -y

Adjective

Aprilly (comparative more Aprilly, superlative most Aprilly)

  1. (rare) Characteristic of the month of April.
    • 1907, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The iron lord:
      It was a summer such as had not often been seen in Kirktown. Day after day, instead of the usual Aprilly weather variegated by thunderstorms which usually passes for summer in Scotland...
    • 1917, Robert Ernest Vernède, Letters to his wife:
      It's turned Aprilly to-day — sharp showers and sunshine.
    • 2000, Anne of the Thousand Penguins, “KIDS!!!”, in alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup (Usenet):
      Aprilly and rainy here, but it will improve the crop of weeds on the front lawn.

Translations
Aprilish — see Aprilish
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